Managing the Risk Surface of a Loan Given Tariffs

When a bank makes a loan, it’s stepping onto a multidimensional terrain of risk. Credit, interest rate, liquidity, optionality, legal and operational risk all interplay with each other to expose the bank, and the borrower, to a set of risk that can be visualized as a three-dimensional area. Given the current state of the economy,…

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Bank Credit Risk: A Risk-Return Analysis

Most bankers are familiar with the concept of risk-return tradeoff, which states that potential return rises with an increase in risk.  Low-risk assets pay lower potential returns, whereas high-risk assets pay higher potential returns.  Further, some bankers are taught early in their careers that they are in the business of taking risks, and banks would…

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